Feminist artist "I have no complaints, except for the world." - Barbara Kruger.

 Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey, in She attended Syracuse University, the School of Visual Arts, in which she studied art and design  She worked as a graphic designer, art director, and picture editor in the art departments at “House and Garden,” “Aperture,” and other publications.  She has taught at the California Institute of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley.

 Barbara Kruger's graphic work usually consists of black-and-white photographs with overlaid captions set in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique.  The phrases usually make a bold statement and commonly use pronouns such as you, I, your, we and they. She uses imagery text containing criticism of sexism/misogyny and cultural power structures. Much of her text questions the viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, although her black-and-white images are culled from the mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing.  She layers found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to. In their trademark black letters against a slash of red background, some of her instantly recognizable slogans read “I shop therefore I am,” and “Your body is a battleground

The exhibition is at The Lever House Art Collection in New York until November 21st.The Lever House Art Collection in New York until November 21st.